terza rima
The verdict
“terza rima” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Système de versification employé par les premiers poètes italiens, par Dante et Pétrarque, dans leurs grands poèmes. Ce système consistait à couper le chant en tercets ou stances de trois vers. Mai...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terza rima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.tsa.ʁi.ma\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “terza rima” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for terza rima is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛʁ.tsa.ʁi.ma\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Système de versification employé par les premiers poètes italiens, par Dante et Pétrarque, dans leurs grands poèmes. Ce système consistait à couper le chant en tercets ou stances de trois vers. Mai...".
No misspelling variants are generated for terza rima in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is terza rima, spelled T-E-R-Z-A- -R-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Système de versification employé par les premiers poètes italiens, par Dante et Pétrarque, dans leurs grands poèmes. Ce système consistait à couper le chant en tercets ou stances de trois vers. Mais, bien que le sens fût arrêté ou au moins suspendu à la fin de chaque tercet, tous se reliaient pourtant l’un à l’autre, parce qu’il y avait au milieu de chacun un vers qui amenait deux rimes dans le suivant; à la fin de la pièce on ajoutait un vers pour rimer avec celui-là. En voici le modèle : aba-bcb-cdcded… yzyz.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-E-R-Z-A- -R-I-M-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɛʁ.tsa.ʁi.ma\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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